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DALLAS (AP) – With the snow and ice clearing in Texas after days of unusually cold temperatures, bodies are being found of people who likely froze to death as they struggled to stay warm after electricity was cut to millions of homes Of the around 70 deaths attributed to the snow, ice and frigid temperatures nationwide, more than a dozen were people who perished in homes that had lost their heat, and most of those were in Texas. They include an 11-year-old boy who died in h...
Debris from a United Airlines plane fell onto Denver suburbs during an emergency landing Saturday, with one very large piece that appears to be part of the engine narrowly missing a home. The plane landed safely and nobody aboard or on the ground was reported hurt, authorities said. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the Boeing 777-200 returned to the Denver International Airport after experiencing a right-engine failure shortly after takeoff. Flight...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – Scientists have cloned the first U.S. endangered species, a black-footed ferret duplicated from the genes of an animal that died over 30 years ago. The slinky predator named Elizabeth Ann, born Dec. 10 and announced Thursday, Feb. 18, is cute as a button. But watch out – unlike the domestic ferret foster mom who carried her into the world, she's wild at heart. "You might have been handling a black-footed ferret kit and then they try to take your fin...
Feb 25, 2021 3:25PM WASHINGTON (AP) - The Democratic-led House passed a bill Thursday that would enshrine LGBTQ protections in the nation's labor and civil rights laws, a top priority of President Joe Biden, though the legislation faces an uphill battle in the Senate. The bill passed by a vote of 224-206 with three Republicans joining Democrats in voting yes. The Equality Act amends existing civil rights law to explicitly include sexual orientation and gender identification...
RANCHO PALOS VERDES (CNS) – Famed golfer Tiger Woods suffered major leg injuries today when the vehicle he was driving rolled off a winding road in the Rancho Palos Verdes area. The crash was reported at 7:12 a.m. on Hawthorne Boulevard at Blackhorse Road, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. "The vehicle sustained major damage," according to a sheriff's department statement. "The driver and sole occupant was identified as PGA golfer, Eldrick `Tiger' W...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Scientists have cloned the first U.S. endangered species, a black-footed ferret duplicated from the genes of an animal that died over 30 years ago. The slinky predator named Elizabeth Ann, born Dec. 10 and announced Thursday, is cute as a button. But watch out - unlike the domestic ferret foster mom who carried her into the world, she's wild at heart. "You might have been handling a black-footed ferret kit and then they try to take your finger off the...
The Biden administration, Friday, Feb. 12, announced plans for tens of thousands of people who are seeking asylum and have been forced to wait in Mexico under a Trump-era policy to be allowed into the U.S. while their cases wind through immigration courts. The first wave of an estimated 25,000 asylum-seekers with active cases in the "Remain in Mexico" program will be allowed into the United States on Feb. 19, authorities said. They plan to start slowly, with two border...
I want to first thank my team of dedicated lawyers and others for their tireless work upholding justice and defending truth. My deepest thanks as well to all of the United States Senators and Members of Congress who stood proudly for the Constitution we all revere and for the sacred legal principles at the heart of our country. Our cherished Constitutional Republic was founded on the impartial rule of law, the indispensable safeguard for our liberties, our rights and our freedoms. It is a sad commentary on our times that one...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration reached a milestone Friday, Feb. 12, in the success of the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, which has provided U.S. small businesses, nonprofits and agricultural businesses $200 billion in emergency funding. “Following the enactment of COVID-19 emergency legislation, the SBA has now provided more than 3.7 million small businesses employing more than 20 million people with $200 billion through the unprecedented COVID-19 EIDL loan program,” acting admin...
Rush Limbaugh, the radio talk radio host known for giving a voice to middle America, exposing liberal agendas and laying waste to political correctness with a merry brand of malice that made him one of the most powerful voices on the American right and foretold the rise of Donald Trump has died today. He was 70. Limbaugh, an outspoken lover of cigars, had been diagnosed with lung cancer. His death was announced by his wife Kathryn. President Trump, during a State of the Union...
It will soon be the anniversary of a global pandemic many predicted, but for which the nation was woefully unprepared. It will be the first year of the Biden-Harris presidential administration. And it will be a symbolic moment for policymakers to start fresh and get it right – on health, the economy and crucially, on supporting the nation’s families. It can be the year to scale up solutions that embrace a culture of health and expand family prosperity. Access to a good job, education, health and whole-family well-being are...
As of Jan. 29, 501 deaths – a subset of 11,249 total adverse events – had been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System following COVID-19 vaccinations. The numbers reflect reports filed between Dec. 14, 2020, and Jan. 29, 2021. VAERS is the primary mechanism for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S. Reports submitted to VAERS require further investigation before confirmation can be made that an adverse eve...
Facebook was the social media network most used to organize the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, an analysis of Department of Justice charging documents showed. The Program on Extremism at George Washington University has collected the indictments of 223 people who have been charged for participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, which caused five deaths and temporarily delayed the certification of President Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. Facebook was used by 73 of the people charged with crimes, more than all other social media s...
The Trump administration attempted to enact a policy that would force American universities to reveal cooperation with chapters of the Confucius Institute. President Joe Biden quietly revoked the policy a few days after his inauguration. Axios reported that in the final days of his presidency, Trump enacted a policy that would compel primary, secondary and postsecondary institutions to disclose all contracts and transactions with the Confucius Institute. Under the policy, schools that do not report information would lose...
Washington, D.C. – The largest and oldest organization dedicated exclusively to limiting the terms of elected officials, U.S. Term Limits is grateful to politicians in Congress who back term limits for their own congressional offices. Who else would know better than incumbent members that term limits are an important and necessary reform to fix a dysfunctional federal institution? Two resolutions have been introduced in Congress calling for 12 years maximum in the U.S. Senate and six years total in the U.S. House of Represent...
WASHINGTON – The Transportation Security Administration began implementing provisions of President Joe Biden’s executive order on promoting COVID-19 safety in domestic and international travel by requiring travelers to wear face masks when they are in airports, bus and rail stations, as well as while on passenger aircraft, public transportation, passenger railroads and over-the-road buses operating on scheduled fixed-routes. TSA’s action will also support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emergency order requi...
Are state governments and private employers about to mandate COVID-19 vaccines? There are many opaque current and future legal issues around COVID-19 and the measures to contain it. Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are emergency use products, and as such, not fully licensed. The law is clear: States may not mandate the vaccines, and private entities do so at the peril of violating federal law. The law governing vaccines approved for emergency use For the time being, there are only two COVID-19 vaccines available in the United...
President Joe Biden is to meet Monday, Feb. 1, with a group of 10 Republican senators who have proposed $618 billion in coronavirus aid, about a third of the $1.9 trillion he is seeking as congressional Democrats are poised to move ahead without Republican support. The Republican group's proposal focuses on the pandemic's health effects rather than its economic toll, tapping into bipartisan urgency to shore up the nation's vaccine distribution and vastly expanding virus testin...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration invites public comment on a proposed rule designed to remove regulatory provisions that exclude certain faith-based organizations from seven business loan and disaster assistance programs. These programs include the Intermediary Lending Program, Business Loan programs (7(a), Microloan and 504 programs), Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, Military Reservist Economic Injury Disaster Loan program and Immediate Disaster Assistance Program. Because these provisions exclude ot...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration announced that it has approved approximately 60,000 PPP loan applications submitted by nearly 3,000 lenders, for over $5 billion, between the program’s reopening on Monday, Jan. 11, at 9 a.m. ET through to Sunday, Jan. 17. Last week, the PPP provided dedicated access to community financial institutions that specialize in serving underserved communities, including minority- women-, and veteran-owned small businesses from Monday through Thursday, joined Friday by smaller len...
More than 30 children were rescued by U.S. marshals from human trafficking in Southern California, including eight who were being sexually exploited, the FBI announced Friday, Jan. 22. The multi-day joint agency "Operation Lost Angels" involved more than two dozen partner agencies and was initiated Monday, Jan. 11. The rescue operation recently culminated in the recovery of 33 children, Kristi K. Johnson, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office, said...
WASHINGTON – Jovita Carranza, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced recently the launch of Ascent, a first-of-its-kind, free digital e-learning platform geared to help women entrepreneurs grow and expand their businesses. Ascent offers tips on preparing and recovering from disasters, strategic marketing, business financial strategy development and more. Ascent is a joint initiative between the White House, the SBA, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau and the U.S. Department of the Treas...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration has already forgiven more than 1.1 million Paycheck Protection Program loans for over $100 billion, providing an extraordinary amount of critical relief to America’s small businesses three months since the earliest PPP borrowers’ covered periods ended. “Today’s news is a key indicator that the PPP is working for all small businesses across our Nation,” SBA administrator Jovita Carranza said. “For any eligible small business continuing to struggle due to the coronavirus p...
WASHINGTON – The overwhelming majority of people arrested for living illegally in the U.S. by federal authorities in 2020 had an average of four criminal convictions or charges, according to a year-end report published by the government. In the document Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it arrested 103,603 people living in the country illegally in the 2019-2020 fiscal year with more than 374,000 convictions and charges. Driving under the influence was the most common conviction or charge at 74,000, followed by drug c...
President Joe Biden’s decision to immediately ask Congress to offer legal status to an estimated 11 million people in the country has surprised advocates given how the issue has long divided Democrats and Republicans, even within their own parties. Biden said Saturday, Jan. 16, he will announce legislation his first day in office to provide a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants in the United States illegally, according to four people briefed on his plans. The president-elect campaigned on a path to citizenship f...
